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I play on my own quite a lot, especially in the week after work when i've only got an hour or so light left.
As said above it's a good way of practising different shots.
If i do play alone i usually hit two drives or two balls on a par 3.
As said above it's a good way of practising different shots.
If i do play alone i usually hit two drives or two balls on a par 3.
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I play on my own majority of the time because as above when I finidh work I can get a few holes done.
Brought a day ticket at Mendip Springs 9 hole course yesterday. Get some practice in before I rejoin my local club. Nice little course and is good to get your approach play nailed.
Brought a day ticket at Mendip Springs 9 hole course yesterday. Get some practice in before I rejoin my local club. Nice little course and is good to get your approach play nailed.
you won't regret it - Had my G10's for a few years now - great clubs.
Get custom fitted for them. Shouldn't cost any extra, but well worth it.
Saturdays' ok-ish round
OB on 6 trying to hit the green with my tee shot!
Hence the 7!!
14/15/16 are poor - dropping 4 shots here is very poor as they are all very very short holes and should be par's at worst!
Also looks terrible with regards fairways hit but a change of my grip and a few tweaks to the swing from the lesson 2 days before have caused that!
Any other skycaddie owners out there?
OB on 6 trying to hit the green with my tee shot!
Hence the 7!!14/15/16 are poor - dropping 4 shots here is very poor as they are all very very short holes and should be par's at worst!
Also looks terrible with regards fairways hit but a change of my grip and a few tweaks to the swing from the lesson 2 days before have caused that!
Any other skycaddie owners out there?
Not a bad card considering how infrequently you found the fairway, putting saved you. I'm guessing your short game's quiet good?
I played solo today for the first time and I enjoyed it, but I just wasn't hitting the ball very well.
As a comparison I found the fairway on at least 14 holes, but my short game needs work.
I played solo today for the first time and I enjoyed it, but I just wasn't hitting the ball very well.
As a comparison I found the fairway on at least 14 holes, but my short game needs work.
I use a little free app called Easy Scorecard which i got from the Android marketplace, there's a bit of setting up with courses, putting in the pars and indexes and whatnot, but it's a great little app, records all your rounds and gives you stats etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mydroidsoft.easyscorecard.pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mydroidsoft.easyscorecard.pro
Me, but you already knew that
The thing I love about the SkyCaddie is all the statistics that you build up over time. Here are my stats for 10 months worth of golf, don't laugh!
Not sure whether to wipe it all and start again for the new season, or carry on building it up?
^ wipe and start fresh for the new season
Personally I use Golfshot on my iphone, and it's great. It saves all your stats as well, and is dead easy to use
Yeah I think I will wipe it
As for phone apps, they're great for social play, but you can't use them in competitions, or at least you can't at our club
Skycaddie looks awesome. I have a Garmin S1 atm but could sell that and upgrade to a Skycaddie, the S1 just gives yardages to front, centre and back of the green.
Is Skycaddie preprogrammed with courses or do you have to download them ? (The S1 has about 5000 preprogrammed).
Which Skycaddie do you guys have/recommend ?
Is Skycaddie preprogrammed with courses or do you have to download them ? (The S1 has about 5000 preprogrammed).
Which Skycaddie do you guys have/recommend ?
You have to download the courses, I have the SG 2.5 and I can have up to 20 courses downloaded at any one time. The good thing with the SkyCaddie is that all the courses are physically walked by their 'mappers', which apparently makes for more accurate yardages as opposed to devices that just rely on maps.
You can find out if your local courses have been mapped here - link
The only downside with the SkyCaddie is the £30 annual membership, but tbh it is a cracking device with a very polished website and great support. For example, one of my friends had an SGX that went wrong due to an issue with an update, and they sent him out a new one before he had to send the faulty one back!
Yeah I think I will wipe it
As for phone apps, they're great for social play, but you can't use them in competitions, or at least you can't at our club
Hmmm, I would've thought you couldn't use any GPS based device in comps?
I've got SG5 and it's superb - very good.
As above - you have unlimited access to courses for £30 a year - they are regularly updated as well. They even have the local 18 hole par 3 course attached to the driving range on it!!
As above - our club allows measuring devices, however does not allow the use of iphones etc on the course for yardages as that contravenes the above rule because the iphone can tell you the temps and wind speeds etc.
As above - you have unlimited access to courses for £30 a year - they are regularly updated as well. They even have the local 18 hole par 3 course attached to the driving range on it!!
As above - our club allows measuring devices, however does not allow the use of iphones etc on the course for yardages as that contravenes the above rule because the iphone can tell you the temps and wind speeds etc.